Corrado Tamburino • Gian Paolo Ussia 2012 At the time of publication of this handbook, percutaneous treatment of left side cardiac valves represented just an exciting and promising opportunity. The lack of outcome data at medium and long term, however, required some caution, since there were still too many unknowns related to a minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart […]
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Mushabbar A. Syed • Raad H. Mohiaddin Editors 2012 As a cardiologist with a career interest in congenital heart disease in adults, I was delighted to have the opportunity to read Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease and write a foreword for it. Over past two decades, CMR has come to occupy an ever more important place […]
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James C. Carr, MD Timothy J. Carroll, PhD Editors 2012 It is with tremendous enthusiasm and excitement that we introduce the book Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Principles and Applications to those who are interested in and involved with the ever-expanding field of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Vascular disease remains to this day the central cause for many serious clinical […]
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Christopher D. Owens Yerem Yeghiazarians (Editors) 2012 Increasingly, peripheral vascular interventions are being performed by vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional radiologists. This handbook is meant to be a guide for the beginner and also for the more advanced interventionalist covering all aspects of percutaneous peripheral vascular interventions.
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Michael Y. Henein Editor 2012 During the last six decades we have witnessed the rapid development of Doppler echocardiography since its first invention by Edler in Lund, Sweden. As with so many new innovations, the immediate response was to deny its clinical application.
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Lotfi Hendaoui • Anthony W. Stanson M. Habib Bouhaouala • Francis Joffre Editors 2012 Vascular diseases represent one of the most frequent causes of death and morbidity in the world. Inflammatory vascular diseases are not the most common but have the peculiarity of a worldwide diffusion, as opposed to vascular diseases provoked by atherosclerosis, which are prevalent in […]
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Paul Hjemdahl • Annika Rosengren Andrew Steptoe Editors 2012 Stress is a multifaceted issue which is of considerable interest to physicians and other healthcare professionals, as well as to their patients and to people in general. The term “stress” is frequently used in different contexts by both professionals and lay people, and means different things to different people. […]
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Massimo Fioranelli • Gaetano Frajese Editors 2012 Physical activity and health are now inseparable terms; regular exercise, like a pharmacological intervention, is a powerful tool of prevention and treatment for many cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the psychophysical well-being that comes from sport drives many individuals, including the elderly, to initiate and continue the practice of many sports.
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Bernd Nilius Susan G. Amara Thomas Gudermann Reinhard Jahn Roland Lill Stefan Offermanns Ole H. Petersen Editors 2012
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Phyllis G. Supino • Jeffrey S. Borer Editors 2012 This book has been written to aid medical students, physicians, and other health professionals as they probe the increasingly complex and varied medical/ scientific literature for knowledge to improve patient care and search for guidance in the conduct of their own research.
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